Vista Problems (enable to boot anything but Vista). Hi I just bought a new Dell laptop XPS M1530, with Vista H.Premium preloaded; I accessed the Bios and changed the booting order CD-DVD/USB/HDD/ etc I tried to wipe the HDD from a CD or USB but failed...

could vista have written something to the drive i cannot see? format is not an option. if i plug it in after xp loads it works great and i can access the drive perfectly. thanks in advance for any help. Change the boot order in the BIOS and remove USB drives....

I would be happy to hear them. For my testing, each time I made a change, I booted with 2 DIMMs to make sure it worked, then shut down, and tried to boot again with all 4 DIMMs. (This was a bit of a pain, because of the way the motherboard is laid out....

OS on the Hard disk. Help!!! Please?? I need an answer immediately!! X_X Thanks!! Any help or suggestions are appreciated!!! change the boot priority in your bios and put the cd drive above the hard drive or you can access the one time boot menu...

persists. Does anyone > know of a way that I can get this POS to boot from the matsushita cdrw > drive? >> There is a "built in" boot agent (something like PXE), but getting > into the config didn't change anything. Please post if you can help, > Thanks!...

from S-ATA1. The motherboard is an Abit KN9S. The boot order keeps reversing to default, and nothing can change it, I save, restart, and it is back to start! I have recently changed the BIOS battery, and everything except the BOOT priority saves properly, the...

64bit), but I'm a bit nervous about that. Thanks for helping a noob. go into the bios, and change to boot order. more than likely, the dvd drive has been put first, change that to your HDD and it should take at least 3 seconds off your boot time, but if...

page it is just a vicious circle, thanks to any and all that can help, sandy Insert your OS disc Change the boot order in the BIOS to boot from your optical drive Press 'r' to get into the repair console Choose the drive to repair (probably 1) Admin pass...

like BartPE to boot and get access to the hard disk. "Machine Messiah" wrote: > I have a retail editon of Windows XP Home that came with SP2 > slipstreamed. > Yesterday I was playing with a program the lets you change the boot> screen. I must have...

Change boot manager options?. Hello all, I have been looking for a boot manager program that will allow me to change my boot screen options. I currently run a dual boot of Vista and Ubuntu. I recently had a tri-boot going with win7beta and the other to OS's...